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PolyGram Chooses Sanitsky
To Head New Television Unit

a Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter

Updated March 6, 1997 12:14 a.m. ET

LOS ANGELES -- PolyGram NV named Bob Sanitsky, a Hollywood agent, to head its new television-production unit.

Mr. Sanitsky, 36 years old, will be president of PolyGram Television, a division that plans to create and distribute programs for TV network, cable, syndication and other markets in the U.S. and world-wide.

PolyGram is one of the world's largest music companies and 75% owned by Philips Electronics NV. In 1992, PolyGram...